236 Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse

... there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: “He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

Един миг на размисъл му позволи да сложи правилната диагноза на това усещане. Необичайният импулс, който го подтикваше да се метне през купето и да целуне Джоун не бе любов, а естественият стремеж на всеки добросърдечен мъж да се държи дружелюбно със себеподобните си.

Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman’s gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.

Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.

He couldn’t have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I read his thoughts aright, to work off the rather heavy lunch he had had earlier in the afternoon.

He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,

Mr. Carlisle became brisk. "Baby," he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign . . .

Many men in Packy's position would have shrunk from diving in to the rescue, fully clad. Packy was one of them.